Of course you haven't, and that's their exact intention.

    • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Because Taiwan is a US colony

      and unlike Japan, it was never anti-US. (Japan also has a high level of general interest, so Europeans find out about the Ainu naturally)

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        edit-2
        3 years ago

        Europeans do not find out about the Ainu naturally. I legitimately did not discover them until Golden Kamuy included them and I'm a massive Japan nerd to the point of having been there a couple times.

          • Awoo [she/her]
            ·
            3 years ago

            Oh? Are Ainu on reddit all the time? Where do they usually show up?

            • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              edit-2
              3 years ago

              No, I'm referring to the redditor behavior of:

              pretending to know about every ethnicity/tribe that ever existed, while actually knowing nothing about them at all other than the fact that they existed, resulting in a commidifying fetishization of their culture, while also spreading white wewuzzery myths about their origin.

      • snott_morrison [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Woud love an effortpost about this if you can be bothered, from someone with little knowledge about Taiwan's history

        :rat-salute:

        • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
          hexagon
          ·
          3 years ago

          I know very little about them

          it's just that I'm aware that I don't know anything. Vast majority doesn't even reach this level.